These quotes have all been attributed to Albert Einstein by members of the Famous Quotes Network and were previously posted to The Famous Quotes Mailing List. Please let me know if you find any errors or omissions.
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrity's. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence
He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being ou own happiness depends.
Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice
I don't believe in mathematics.
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I love to travel, But hate to arrive
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it ?
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving
Nationalism is an infantile diease, the measles of mankind
Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.
On the big Bang theory: "For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe."
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Politics is more difficult than physics
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.
MacMillan has this particular quote simply as "God doesn't play dice." and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe"
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
So long as there are men there will be wars
Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth.
The important thing is not to stop questioning
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.
Where there is love there is no question
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
